Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-05-25

THE TWO OF EsTIoSs WHICH ACETATE SOUTHERN PRES
BYTERIASS.
In the Southern Presbyterian Assembly in seS-
sion at ST. Louis yesterday, the committee on bills
and Overtures reported ON Oyertures from the Har-
mony and south Carolina PreSbyteries, touching
the acts OF the last assembly on evolution, and the
power OF the general assembly over theological
Summaries and their instructors The answer was
that the assembly decline TO formulate any de-
tailed examination OF the acts of the last assembly,
any statement, however expressed, could only
b. regarded as a new deliverance on the same sub
Iect, which this assembly do not 1eel called upon
10 make. There was an answer formulated by a
majority OF the committee minority also
presented a report. which dealt primarily
with the jurisdiction OF different church
courts and the manner in which matters can be
brought before the General Assembly. Ii says:
Prospecting the further question OF the South
Carolina PTeSbytery touching the mode or crea-
ton as defined by the last assembly, we recon-
mend this assembly TO answer that the Scriptures
cIe rly reveal that in the highest God Is the
creator OF all things, and consequently or Adam,
body and SOU, ami both the scriptures OF our
confession OF faith teach that his body formed
OF the dust of the ground Whether mediate
or Immediate, the ''inScrutable mode" God
hath not revealed. and this assembly holds that
II i not given TO the church to pronounce det-
nitely 10 the mode 10y which and the time IN
Which the Creator chose TO work. The report was
uuFketed for future consideration.
The organic union or cooperation or the TWO
great churches came up for consideration Rev.
W. X. Coppidge, OF Montgomery, Va, offered a
substitute for the minority report, recommending
harmony, but not union or cooperation. DR.. r. h
SmOUt OF Texas. chairman OF the special commit
Tee and representative OF the minority side OF the
question, then took the floor and made a long
speech against union or cooperation He attacked
the majority report first TO its claims that the
majority OF pre>DyterieS were in favor OF closer re-
latlpn. He said there Is not an unanimous Senti-
Inent in any one OF the three ynOdS-NlSSOur,
Arkansas, and Authenticated TO by the ma
JorlIy IN favor OF organic union The presumption
WAS that the silence OF the majority or the pres
byteries placed them in opposition to the union.
There IS not a demand in the Church for the
opening OF the question. The Church was
hot 10 follow in the wake. OF any political
or business movement in this country. '-rhey
say the war Is over politicians North and South
fixing up their diff ulties, but where's the
connection? This is not a war church. This is
hot secession church. We hold that any man,
no matter whether he was born III Maine or Texas,
can b. taken into the fellowship Of our church. IL
We were united with the Northern church, every
time We met there would be argument and diSSen-
SION and alienation. Ours is not southern
church, but church that differs from the Pres
Dyterian Church OF the United states in the inter-
probation OF our common standards. The church
and state are not united 1t Is said that we fellows
are peStiferOuS old ag1tatOrS, because We Will not
unite With the Northern church now that political
differences are settled. IL is said the war is over
Almost all those preachers who have gone back
into the Northern church were the most rabid dur
Ing the war;"